Timothy Quinn

On Grades and Grading (eBook, PDF)

Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the purposes grades can serve, as well as their impact on student learning. Quinn takes a hard look at the three pedagogical purposes for grades - providing data about students, motivating students, and providing students with feedback on their work. He then goes on to address a number of specific and, at times, controversial grading related issues, including grade inflation, grading collaborative work, grading and failure, the grading of behaviors and dispositions, and the use of technology in grading. Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216286660
• Artikelnr.: 74849670

Autorenporträt

Timothy Quinn holds a B.A. from Amherst College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and is currently a candidate for an M.A. from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. Timothy has taught English and Moral Philosophy at a range of independent and international schools, most recently Westminster School (Simsbury, CT) and the University School of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI), where he is currently the Assistant Head of Upper School.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Grades - Definitions and Purposes
Grades DefinedThe Pedagogical Purposes of GradesPart 2: Issues in Grading
Grade InflationThe Forms Grades Take: Numbers vs. LettersDetermining
Summative GradesGrading and Failure: Retakes and RewritesGrading Behaviors
and DispositionsGrading Collaborative WorkSelf-Assessment and
Self-GradingTechnology and the Grading ProcessThe Issue of InconsistencyThe
Advantages and Disadvantages of RubricsHow to Report GradesPart 3:
Conclusion
Shifting the Focus from Grades to Learning
12 Steps to Improving Your Grading System
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author